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Thanks to allegedly nonexistent Antifa, every day is No Kings Day at the ICE facility in moonbat-infested Portland. Here’s what it looked like yesterday: video on link Someone has to pay all these guys to stand around defending ICE facilities from treasonous vermin who want to prevent the enforcement of immigration law. If you pay taxes in the USA, that would be you.

Welcome, and congratulations. You’ve lived long enough to see the age of flying cars—privately owned, solo-piloted aircraft, free to operate in unrestricted airspace, much as automobiles can take to the open road. And they’re all electric. I knew you’d be thrilled.Here in the future, we call them ultralight eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles). Of course, they don’t much resemble the levitating Studebakers and auto-gyrating Chevys foretold in pulp science fiction. The Pivotal BlackFly—the first series-produced ultralight eVTOL to reach the consumer market (2023)—doesn’t even have wheels. It takes off and lands on its curved keel. It’s also amphibious,...

Summary Israeli strikes kill 26 people in Gaza after two soldiers killed Gazans report explosions, gunfire, airstrikes and tank shelling Dispute over return of hostages' bodies continues between Israel and Hamas JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Sunday that a ceasefire in Gaza had resumed after an attack that killed two of its soldiers and prompted a wave of airstrikes that killed 26 people, in the most serious test yet of this month's U.S.-brokered truce. Aid into the enclave was set to resume on Monday following U.S. pressure, an Israeli security source said, shortly after Israel...

Jay Jones gave speech condemning Ralph Northam’s blackface controvery, then campaigned with him. Democratic Virginia attorney general hopeful Jay Jones gave an impassioned speech on race in 2019 which criticized then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam over wearing blackface — and then Jones embraced and campaigned with the disgraced Democratic governor during his unsuccessful bid to be attorney general in 2021 and again during his current bid in 2025.The yearbook photo depicting two people, one dressed up in Ku Klux Klan robes and the other in blackface, appeared on Northam’s 1984 yearbook page at Eastern Virginia Medical School and came to...

Recently, at the same time that I’ve watched all the idiot protesters (including some of our own politicians) and America Haters, I’ve been fascinated by the many videos like this: WW2 PrisonersThey reminded me of this old Gordon Sinclair commentary on ‘The Americans’: The AmericansThe United States of America has been a great blessing on the world and on civilization.

Nancy Pelosi prowls the political stage like a specter, her influence a dark cloud over America’s future.No longer Speaker, she still clings to power, pulling strings from the shadows with a smirk that masks her contempt for the heartland.To Americans, she’s the embodiment of elitist decay -- a figure whose every maneuver drips with arrogance and betrayal.Her legacy is a battlefield strewn with the wreckage of American values, and her recent moves prove she’s still a threat to the nation’s soul.Pelosi’s grip, though loosened, remains a chokehold on progress. She’s not just a relic; she’s a schemer, orchestrating chaos from...

A man waited more than 50 years to carry out his vengeance after being bullied at school. South Dakota man Carl Ericsson never forgot how his bully Norman Johnson pulled a jockstrap over his head in a high school locker room when he was younger. Retired Madison High School teacher and track coach Norman Johnson had answered his front door only to get shot twice in the face.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Sunday that the United States conducted a strike against a seventh boat Friday as the Trump administration ramps up its war on alleged drug smuggling. Hegseth said in a statement on social media that the strike was conducted at the direction of the president on a vessel allegedly affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional, a militant political group in Colombia that has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States for decades. "The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route,...

A flight en route from Hangzhou, China, to South Korea's Incheon International Airport on Oct 18 was diverted to Shanghai after a fire broke out in the cabin. A lithium battery stowed in a passenger's carry-on luggage in the overhead compartment had caught fire, the airline said in a statement on Weibo. "The crew immediately handled the situation according to procedures, and no one was injured," they said. They added that the plane was diverted for an unscheduled landing at Shanghai Pudong International Airport to "ensure flight safety". In a video circulating social media, flames could be seen emitting from...

HATE AMERICA No Kings protest had very weak turnout in Denver. And just like that, they were gone!

How a mysterious tip-off led investigators to uncover the inner workings of a highly unusual hacking operation By the time the police arrived, Elena Timofeeva was ready. The petite brunette with a heart-shaped face and deep-set eyes had spent the past eight years living a double life. In Marbella, she appeared to be an inconspicuous 43-year-old Russian transplant who had swapped her life as the owner of a small electronics business back home in Siberia for sun-touched Spanish shores. But online, she had a different persona: Drakosha (“Little Dragon”) was a top lieutenant in one of the world’s biggest ransomware...

I love the New York Post editorials. None of this above the fray, on the one hand, on the other hand bothsidesism. You know exactly where the Post stands. “Hochul absolutely has to kill the macabre doctor-assisted-suicide bill,” the October 12 editorial declares unequivocally. “Gov. Kathy Hochul must resist the coming push to sign the so-called Medical Aid in Dying Act: New York doesn’t need to turn doctors into killers,” the editorial begins. “Fans of ‘assisted suicide’ pretend it’s purely about respecting the wishes of terminally ill patients seeking a dignified exit, but medicalized killing never stops there.” There are...

The powerful song was the second single from the group’s ‘Puzzle People’ albumIt’s October 18, 1969. The Russian Soyuz 8 spacecraft returns to Earth with cosmonauts Shatalov and Yeliseyev. Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner is arrested for marijuana possession. Wyclef Jean and golfer Ernie Els are each one day old; Led Zeppelin are preparing to release their second album. Gas costs 35c a gallon in America and 6s 2d (31p) in Britain. And America’s new favorite pop single is “I Can’t Get Next To You” by the Temptations. Another triumph in the ongoing collaboration between the vocal group, producer Norman Whitfield...

From the inimitable Robert Spencer, a last-minute plea for New Yorkers to come to their senses.I haven’t lived in my hometown, New York, for 27 years, but thanks to the Internet I’ve been able to keep in such close touch that sometimes, sitting at my computer in Norway, I catch myself thinking for a split second that I’m actually still in my last apartment on the Upper East Side, right down the block from Gracie Mansion, where the mayor lives. It’s an easy mistake to make: after all, I write regularly for Manhattan-based publications; I peruse the New York Post...

The head of CBS News’ standards and practices unit — who presided over some of the network’s recent controversial, woke reporting — is out as new boss Bari Weiss looks to bring more balance to the left-leaning network. Claudia Milne, who ran the division responsible for the moral, ethical and legal implications of CBS programming, is the first senior executive to leave the network since Weiss arrived as editor in chief earlier this month. Although Milne’s job had been “slowly phased out,” a CBS source called her departure “significant.” “She was part of the woke mob at CBS News. It...

President Donald Trump on Friday evening: "The Republican Party is not going to pay a trillion and a half dollars to illegal immigrants coming into our country, coming in for a lot of reasons, coming in from prisons, from jails, from all over the place, from Venezuela, many countries. We're not going to do that. So the shutdown continues. It's a Democrat shutdown. It's a Schumer shutdown because his career has failed and it's over."

President Donald Trump has once again done what few in Washington have dared to do: he’s taken on deceptive and dishonest Big Pharma practices and sided squarely with the American people.Last month, Trump issued a presidential memorandum directing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr., to require pharmaceutical companies to fully disclose every possible side effect in their direct-to-consumer drug advertisements. While Big Pharma whined that this was a speech control measure, in reality, it is a restoration of basic standards of truth and accountability in advertising. By demanding full transparency, Trump is protecting the public by prohibiting drugmakers...

Get ready for a fight over how much steak, butter and ice cream you should eat. These beloved foods—not to mention pizza, cookies and many sandwiches—all contain saturated fat. For decades, the federal government has told Americans to reduce their consumption of this type of fat, citing its link to heart disease.The government’s advice may be changing soon.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in July that the government would issue “new dietary guidelines that are common sense that stress the need to eat saturated fats, dairy, good meat, fresh meat and vegetables.” Kennedy last month released the Trump administration’s...

President Trump finds something about Republican New York City mayoral contender Curtis Sliwa to be purr-posterous. The president recoiled at the prospect of the cat lover bringing his clowder of felines into Gracie Mansion, as he said he hadn’t decided whether to get involved in the race yet. “Is he really a Republican? Am I a big fan?” Trump mused during a pre-taped interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “This isn’t exactly ideal, where he wants to make Gracie Mansion a home for the cats,” Trump continued. “Gracie Mansion is the magnificent home of Fiorello La Guardia and the...

Documented Atrocities by Islamist Arab "Palestine" Hamas Regime Against Israeli HostagesThe following details the inhumane treatment of Israeli hostages by the Arab-supremacist Islamic-Jihadi "Palesrtine" terror regime Hamas in Gaza, starting from the brutal October 7, 2023, attack. These accounts, supported by credible reports, expose the sadistic and cruel actions of Hamas, highlighting the urgent need to address their violations of human rights and international law.Reported Abuses and AtrocitiesMurder and Mutilation of Bibas Children: Hamas captors murdered toddler Ariel and baby Kfir Bibas "in cold blood" with "their bare hands" and mutilated their bodies to conceal the crime. Their mother was...